ATTO Utilities Installation and Operation Manual
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ATTO Utilities Installation and Operation Manual ATTO Configuration Tool for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X BIOS Utilities ATTO Utilities for Windows • Alamode • Benchmark • LUN Masking • FC API • Domain Validation © 2007 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc. 4/2007. Document Control Number: PRMA-0267-000MD Contents Glossary 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool ...............................................................1 Install from the ATTO website Install from CD Use the Configuration Tool Navigating the ATTO Configuration Tool About panel 1.1 Fibre Channel NVRAM settings ..........................................6 BIOS PCI Memory Write/Invalidate Button PCI Latency Timer Hard Address Enable Button Hard Address Frame Size Device Discovery Connection Mode options Data Rate Node Name Port Name Interrupt Coalesce Additional Settings for ExpressPCI FCSW/3300/3305 adapters World Wide Name Duplex Mode IOCB Allocation Per Target Loop Reset Delay Execution Throttle Loop Arbitration Fairness Class 2 Options Enable LUNs 1.2 SCSI NVRAM settings ..........................................................9 Controller ID Termination Selection Timeout (ms) Fallback Sync Rate (MB/s) Bus Reset Delay (sec.) Quick Arbitrate & Select (Ultra320 only) Wide IDs Specified Target LUNs Allow Disconnect Tagged Command Queuing Sync Offset Sync Enabled for this ID Sync Rate (MB/s) Wide Transfers ATTO Technology Inc. 1.3 SAS NVRAM settings ...........................................................11 SAS Address Boot Driver Heartbeat Device Wait Device Count Port Configuration (R348 only) 1.4 SAS RAID settings ...............................................................13 Preliminary steps Set up DVRAID Custom RAID setup Use Hot Spares Modify RAID groups Expand Capacity Change from one RAID level to a new RAID Level Delete group Rebuild group 1.5 RAID notifications ................................................................19 Basic alerts Logging E-mail 1.6 Troubleshooting ...................................................................21 Messages from NVRAM Tab Actions An error occurred loading NVRAM data. Warning: NVRAM could not be read, defaults returned. An error occurred updating the NVRAM. Feature bounds checking Messages from Flash Tab Actions This is not a flash file, or it is corrupt. This HBA is not compatible with the selected flash file. A valid file was not selected. An error occurred reading from the flash file, the file may be corrupt. An error occurred updating the flash. Access the Fibre Channel Utility Access the SCSI Utility Common BIOS Configuration Utility functions Selectable Boot Device Update flash ROM Display device list Reset defaults Format disk drives Save parameters and exit Discard parameters and exit Configure Stripe groups ATTO Utilities Installation and Operation Manual 2.1 FC BIOS Configuration Utility .............................................25 Adapter Node Name Adapter Number Class 2 Options Connect Speed Connection Mode options Current Boot Node Name Current Boot LUN Number Device Discovery Enable LUNs Enable Selectable Boot Execution Throttle Frame Size Hard Address Enable BIOS Interrupt Level Interrupt Coalesce I/O Address IOCB Allocation Per Target Loop Arbitration Fairness Loop Reset Delay PCI Latency Timer PCI Memory Write/Invalidate 2.2 SCSI BIOS Configuration Utility .........................................27 Configure Adapter Channels menu Bus Reset Delay Channel Number Firmware Version (Ultra320 only) BIOS Initiator ID Interrupt Level I/O Address Max Single-Ended Sync Rate PCI Burst Size (Ultra160, Ultra/WIDE only) PCI Bus Parity (Ultra160, Ultra/WIDE only) Quick Arbitrate & Select (Ultra320 only) Reset Bus on Startup SCSI Termination Selection Timeout SCSI device settings SCSI Device Settings menu Enable Disconnect Enable LUNs (Ultra160, Ultra/WIDE) Enable LUNs (Ultra320) Enable Synchronous SCSI Enable Wide SCSI Sync Offset Sync Rate Tagged Command Queuing ATTO Technology Inc. 2.3 ExpressSAS BIOS Utility .....................................................31 Access the SAS Utility Configure Adapter Settings menu Boot Driver Device Wait Time Device Wait Count Heartbeat Port Configuration (R348 only) Reset to Defaults Display Drive List menu Show Drive Detail Select Drive Scan Clean Hot Spare Remove Spare Configure RAID Groups menu View Selected RAID Group Create Delete Rebuild Partition Map RAID Groups Create a RAID group 3.0 ATTO Utilities for Windows ............................................................35 Configuration Tools 3.1 Configuring Mode Pages: Alamode Utility ........................36 Notes Using Alamode 3.2 ATTO Disk Benchmark ........................................................37 Benchmark fields Performing multiple benchmark tests 3.3 FC LUN Masking Utility ........................................................39 Add a new device to an adapter Use the Edit LUN Mask Dialog box Save and apply your changes 3.4 SNIA FC Host Adapter API ..................................................41 3.5 Domain Validation Testing ..................................................43 Run the SCSI Application 3.6 ExpressPCI SCSI Setup Utility ............................................45 Modify NVRAM settings 3.7 Troubleshooting ...................................................................47 ATTO Utilities Installation and Operation Manual Appendix A CLI provides an ASCII-based interface ...........................i CLI error messages CLI summary CLI command explanations Appendix B Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. ......................................x ATTO Technology Inc. ATTO Utilities Installation and Operation Manual Glossary Some terms used in the Fibre Channel industry are defined below. More information is available through the ATTO Technology website (www.attotech.com), the Fibre Channel Industry Association (www.fibrechannel.com), Cern (www.cern.ch), the Storage Area Networking Industry Association (www.snia.org), and the Fibre Channel Consortium (www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums, click on FC). Term Definition ANSI American National Standards Institute arbitrate process of selecting one L_Port from a collection of ports which ask for use of the arbitrated loop at the same time arbitrated loop a loop topology (FC-AL) in which two or more ports are interconnected, but only two ports can communicate at one time. Low-cost solution which may or may not use hubs and switches. autonegotiation hardware senses and automatically responds depending on configuration BER Bit Error Rate: a measure of transmission accuracy; the ratio of bits received in error to bits sent bit Smallest unit of data a computer can process: a single binary digit, either 0 or 1 bus a collection of unbroken signal lines used to transmit information from one part of a computer system to another. Taps on the lines connect devices to the bus. Byte an ordered set of 8 bits channel a point-to-point link which transports data from one point to another CPU Central Processing Unit: the portion of the computer that performs computations. CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check: an error-correcting code which calculates a numeric value for received and transmitted data. If no error has occurred during transmission, the CRC for both received and transmitted data should be the same. destination a value in the frame header of each frame which identifies the port in the node where address the frame is being sent device driver a program that allows a microprocessor to direct the operation of a peripheral device DMA Direct Memory Access: a way to move data from a storage device directly to RAM without using the CPU’s resources DMA bus master Allows a peripheral to control the flow of data to and from system memory by block as opposed to allowing the processor to control the data by bytes (PIO or programmed I/O) fabric A Fibre Channel switch or two or more Fibre Channel switches interconnected to physically transmit data between any two N_Ports on the switch or switches. FC Fibre Channel F_port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a N_port may attach FL_port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a NL_port may attach in an arbitrated loop frame an indivisible unit for transfer of information in Fibre Channel frame header the first field in the frame containing the address and other control information about the frame. full duplex a communication protocol which allows transmission in both directions at the same time half duplex a communication protocol which allows transmission in both directions, but only one direction at a time ATTO Technology Inc. Term Definition host a processor, usually a CPU and memory, which communicates with devices over an interface initiator device A component which originates a command L_port a port in an arbitrated loop, either a NL_port or a FL_port LED Light-emitting diode: a type of diode that emits light when current passes through it. Visible LEDs are used as indicator lights on all sorts of electronic devices. LUN Logical Unit Number: an identifier for a logical unit (0-7) multi-mode fiber an optical fiber which can carry several beams of light at once. N_port a port attached to a node used with point-to-point or fabric configurations NL_ port a port attached to a node in Fibre Channel arbitrated loop or fabric loop configuration originator an initiating device; a component which originates a